For these simply becoming a member of, Goonswarm Federation, a 48,000 capsuleer robust null sec alliance, is shifting from its dwelling in Delve to Tenerifis and areas east, which is likely to be the most important peacetime logistical operation within the historical past of New Eden. I’ve seen so many freighters, soar freighters, Rorquals, and different haulers on the transfer it boggles the thoughts that there are such a lot of ships. Anyway, the main points behind the transfer announcement are in a previous put up. (In order for you the story in a Japanese comedian e book format, someone has you lined and you will discover Half 1 and Half 2 on the respective hyperlinks.)
From Delve to the east
After the announcement… and complaints and recriminations from a couple of of our foes… the primary week of the transfer was spent consolidating every part on the Keepstar in 1DQ1-Some time I used to be impatient and in a panic by turns as to how I used to be going to maneuver every part. Principally lined right here, although I received as much as some facet issues I’ll attempt to write about later. The standard unhealthy concept journey factor.
The second week after the announcement appeared to be centered on getting all people from the Keepstart in 1DQ1-A to the Keepstar in 49-U6U, the final cease in Querious earlier than the regional gate into Catch. The regional gate, the choke level the place every part has to gate or go means round, dozens of jumps the opposite means as a way to get previous, was declared purple as a result of folks leaping by on their very own have been getting popped by opportunistic gate camps.
There have been loads of folks nonetheless in Delve making an attempt to seize loners and strays, however the gate between 49-U6U in Querious and 4-07MU in Catch was a magnet for hostiles.
So the plan was to get us all able to go in 49-U6U then bust by along with protecting fleets clearing the way in which. All week lengthy there have been protected cyno fleets and bridging titans obtainable to get ships to 49-. I received my two remaining Delve capitals, loaded with as many ships as they may carry of their upkeep bays, to the system after which flew particular person costly ships and something I didn’t need to repackage and ship by way of one of many delivery providers.
This train of shifting issues received me to repackage nearly every part ultimately. I spent a very good 2 billion ISK on rewards for courier contracts to ship issues to UALX, Jita, Amarr (which is cheaper and appeared extra more likely to get performed than the Jita contracts, two of that are nonetheless ready) so I wouldn’t must fly or haul ships myself. (Some Tengu hulls are up on the market in Amarr nonetheless.)
Granted, taking a look at my transactions, I ended up promoting greater than 3 billion ISK value of stuff in the marketplace myself or by way of a market alt, so money clever I’m not hurting. However I do know on the far finish, in UALX I’ll find yourself shopping for a number of costly rigs and doubtless various modules that I despatched to Jita as an alternative of our new staging.
After which I threw what was left in direction of 49-U6U, after which received out my alliance alts and received them sorted and shifting ahead as effectively. I’ve a number of stuff in movement and I barely symbolize even the tiniest glimpse of a sliver of what’s being moved. The Month-to-month Financial Report for October goes to be value inspecting as a result of the worth of all of that stuff shifting out of Delve, for instance, will likely be mirrored.
All these transfer ops over the week culminated yesterday within the large transfer, the soar between the 2 techniques. The Saturday 19:00 UTC fireplace was a quick replace about how we have been going to maneuver ahead by the area gate, then fleets have been posted and all people who may piled on into the sport.
It was fairly busy Saturday in EVE On-line, with peak concurrent hitting 36,015 capsuleers within the recreation, a complete we haven’t reached shortly. Now, I’m not saying that was all due to our transfer op, however once we go into 49-U6U we pushed previous the 4K mark.
Filling up the system
The quantity peaked previous the 4,200 mark in the primary system, plus a straightforward 1,200 or extra capsuleers in 1DQ1-A, 4-07MU, UALX, and different factors alongside the path that was deliberate for the day. That 36K peak concurrent hit at 19:18 UTC, as we have been all piling in after the hearth, which meant about 1 participant in 8 within the recreation was one way or the other related to or affected by this operation.
Nevertheless, there have been troubles instantly. As you may see above, time dilation was already pegged to 10% and we weren’t even actually in movement but. Management had requested CCP to map the system nodes to accommodate this transfer op, however for some purpose they put 1DQ1-A and 49-U6U on the identical node collectively, which have been the 2 peak techniques as we began. Indignant Mustache posted a meme about this to Reddit with an explainer within the feedback.
Later 1DQ was mapped to a distinct node, however management needed to get on coms and ask folks to log out in the event that they weren’t in particular teams that have been slated to maneuver first.
The teams requested to remain have been freighters and Rorquals, who could be the primary go take the gate, and protecting fleets, which included tremendous carriers on the Keepstar, titans on the gate, in addition to a fleet of Rokhs and a fleet of Harpies. Not being within the former transfer group, I logged out two of my characters and put the third in a Harpy and joined the protecting fleet. I then undocked and received on the gate to look at the parade start.
Management had a plan to regulate the chaos. They put a couple of heavy interdictor cruisers on the Keepstar with their bubbles up.
The Keepstar with the transfer about to begin
The bubbles have been there to forestall folks from warping, to behave as a kind of visitors management so they may put the breaks on the transfer if one thing occurred or decelerate the stream if the server began lagging or disconnecting folks. On the primary undock in entrance there have been truly left and proper bubbles that someone stated would alternate, letting folks warp in smaller packs, although wanting on the video I don’t assume that ever occurred. However they clearly turned visitors on and off at varied occasions. The bubbles on prime have been to maintain antsy tremendous pilots from going early or from getting warped off in the event that they disconnected.
With all of this in place and the duvet fleets watching, the primary bubble went down and capitals began warping to the gate. They let each decrease bubbles down so it was a freight practice of capitals touchdown on the regional gate.
Right here they arrive!
Time dilation, which had eased up after greater than a thousand folks logged off within the system, started to hit onerous once more as all these ships transitioned to the far facet of the connection.
That went on for effectively over an hour. I’ve display screen pictures with time stamps effectively previous 20:00 UTC with a steady stream of freighters, Rorquals, and another capitals that ought to have held again however folks get in a rush or don’t observe the directions.
Extra haulers… and others… hitting the gate
A few of them made a number of spherical journeys that they had a lot to haul, so it was some time earlier than different capitals have been allowed to start out becoming a member of the stream. After which the stream of ships, which had solely slackened a bit, was revved again up once more.
The path of capitals headed to the gate
When the clearance for different capitals was given I logged in my capital alt and despatched him by the gate in my previous Archon, carrying all I may stuff into it. He received by the gate and docked up on the Keepstar on the opposite facet. I had set the 49-U6U Keepstar as his dwelling station, so I may simply self-destruct him to ship him again for an additional run.
However earlier than he went once more I swapped characters round, put him in a Harpy, logged out the opposite character… who received on a few kill mails, the primary in over a yr… and received Wilhelm out to push my Ninazu by the gate to the opposite facet.
Then, round 22:00, or practically three hours into the op, which began at 19:00, the phrase went out that it was the flip of the supers. The bubbles went up on the primary undock and down on the higher space the place supers undock on a Keepstar and off they went.
The caps ready for the supers to clear the gate
Any person caught a video of the supers being freed to warp off and posted it to Reddit.
One other participant put collectively a pleasant, sped up view of the gate in 49-U6U with all of the capitals touchdown and leaping by.
Ultimately we hit some extent the place we have been clear to gate subcaps and I docked up and began pushing these by, as I had extra to maneuver than my capitals may carry. That was undock, gate, dock up, depart ship, self destruct, seem again firstly, board the following ship, then undock to do it once more.
I didn’t have a number of subcaps to maneuver, however a couple of battleships and battlecruisers that wouldn’t all match into my capitals in a single return journey. That was performed fairly rapidly, at which level we have been below a thousand capsuleers in both system. Issues wound down because the preliminary rush of individuals desirous to get themselves throughout the area gate tapered off.
There have been nonetheless folks shifting from 1DQ1-A, so protected cyno and bridging fleets went as much as transfer folks ahead to 49-U6U. Wilhelm nonetheless had… nonetheless has… a couple of ships to maneuver ahead, so I had my major and every alt transfer one ahead then fly it by the regional gate. What’s now left again in 1DQ are issues that may safely go on their very own.
In the meantime, whereas our foes didn’t strongly contest this transfer op… whereas lively in small teams, they haven’t actually performed a lot apart from attempt to decide off stragglers and straightforward marks… they did ship some bombers and interceptors out to as soon as once more attempt to decide off targets of alternative.
Within the cowl fleet we weren’t fully idle and simply watching the ships go by. We chased off some bombers and saved a Rorqual that one way or the other received caught on one other gate in 49-U6U.
Rorqual rescued
Some interceptors have been working round and we chased them and managed to catch a couple of in dictor bubbles earlier than the remaining flew off searching for simpler targets.
Talking of interdictors and their bubbles, a wily Sabre pilot managed to place up a bubble behind the Keepstar in 4-07MU shut sufficient in to behave as a drag bubble. There’s a complete drag impact of interdictor bubbles that may pull ships that land shut sufficient into them, and this pulled some capitals previous the Keepstar and into open area the place they have been susceptible.
Capitals omitted within the open
The Harpy fleet rolled up and chased off the interdictor and shepherded the caps, however someone had the concept to place a heavy interdictor on the undock on entrance of the Keepstar to mainly catch all warping ships inside vary to dock as much as forestall this routine
I went over to DOTLAN later within the night, round 4:00 UTC of the following day, recreation time, to see what kind of stats the 2 techniques put up for the transfer op. There have been a number of jumps into and out of these two techniques.
Some stats for the 2 goal techniques
Greater than 40K jumps in a 24 hour interval is a number of jumps. For comparability Jita, which is definitely the busiest system in New Eden and has folks coming and going all hours, such that CCP at all times runs it by itself node, had 58K jumps in the identical 24 hours. Amarr, the second commerce hub of New Eden, had about 27K.
And all of that was simply yesterday’s fleet ops across the regional gate. There have been strikes attending to the purpose the place ships may soar into these techniques in the course of the day. There have been extra final evening in Delve as KarmaFleet assembled all of its items. And there will likely be extra in the present day for positive and a few extra within the coming week. We’ll be shifting folks from Delve by that gate for some time.
On the far facet of the gate, nevertheless, issues get a bit simpler. There’s not one other related state of affairs that may require folks to take a gate. It is going to be all capital jumps or bridges to cynos on Keepstars the place you may land, dock up, let your timer run down, then undock and transfer on to the following location. I’ll have the ability to run up and again the chain a couple of further occasions and get every part to our new dwelling simply sufficient.
Granted, I nonetheless have delivery contracts ready to be picked up. I may need to return to 1DQ and take care of these once more. And I’ve a couple of small ships there that may make their means on their very own. However, for me at the very least, the massive effort, the crossing of the regional gate into Catch, is finished for many every part I need to carry ahead.
So all of that yesterday was largely simply to get folks by one regional gate.
Now to attend for these cyno fleets to start out so I can transfer additional east.
